Satellite WIFI for remote communities is a challenge. It is estimated by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) that 2.6 Billion people are not connected to the Internet. Thats 2.6 Billion People, like you and me. 2.6 Billion brilliant minds that could contribute to the world. Just imagine a world with those 2.6 Billion connected. The …
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So What Now
So what now? I did my TEDx talk last Sunday. My talk, which could possibly be described as a passionate ramble at times, was for a reason. That reason is the desire to help the unconnected. Currently, it is estimated according to the ITU, that 2.6 Billion people are not connected to the Internet. Another …
Connecting the Unconnected
What can we do to help connect the 2.6 Billion unconnected people?
First of all, let’s look at the challenges:
Remote Location
Displaced Refugees
Lack of personal finance
Lack of Financial Viability for Traditional Telecommunications Infrastructure
Should the UN have its own LEO Satellites
Should the UN have its own LEO Satellites? LEO is short for Low Earth Orbit. LEO Satellites can provide broadband Internet to the whole of the earth’s surface. Currently, an estimated 2.6 Billion people remain unconnected to the Internet. That means one-third of the earth’s human population, can’t go online. Whilst the reasons are not …
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Giving Fifty Percent Of Profits to Charity
Giving fifty percent of profits to charity, is something I woke up thinking about this morning. So I googled it, to find out if it already existed, and it did. As some of you may know, I run a small business, but am also a part time teacher. This year I have become increasingly interested …
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Refugee Education Using Satellites
Refugee Education can traditionally be hard to achieve. The very nature of a refugees situation, means that they are displaced. Being displaced from their normal geographic home, disrupts schooling for the young. But there is a new possible solution. The solution is direct to handset education. More specifically I am talking about direct-to-handset, from Low …
AI Teachers for SDG4
Ai Teachers. AI is short for Artificial Intelligence. AI has the ability to revolutionise teaching and education. It also has a role to play in meeting the SDG4 goal. The SDG4 goal is short for Sustainable Development Goal 4. Sustainable Development Goal 4, is a United Nation initiative, to provide ‘Quality Education’ for all of …
SDG Goals Using LEO Satellites
SDG is short for Sustainable Development Goals. SDG comprises seventeen separate development goals. The seventeen goals were agreed by the United Nations in 2015. The goals cover various development goals, such as gender equality and education for all, and have an achievement target date of 2030. My personal focus is mainly on SDG4, though there …
Connecting Schools To The Internet
Visualise and imagine this. You’ve never used a mobile phone, you’ve never even heard of Google; even the Internet itself is an alien concept. This is not science fiction, this is the lived reality for an estimated 2.7 Billion of our fellow world citizens. This impacts the lives of unconnected people, through less access to …
SDG4 Last Mile Connectivity
SDG4 is the United Nations’ target of providing quality education for all, by 2030. Part of the issue is that 2.7 billion people are still not connected to the Internet. By connecting these 2.7 billion people, we can improve access to education, and also improve existing attainment standards. LEO Satellites can provide low-latency broadband Internet …